Clothes-pounder.



UNITED STATES latented November 17, 1905;. I

PATENT OFFICE.

LOIS s. ELLIOTT AND EDWARD M. ELLIOTT, on SYRACUSE, NEW some CLOTHES-POUNDiER."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,518, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed September 1, 1903. Serial No. 171,562. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, LOIs S. ELLIOTT and EDWARD M. ELLIOTT, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in theState'of New .'Y0rk,have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,'is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of clothespounders which are formed hollow and with air-circulating ducts which extendthrough the pounder and are provided with valves arranged to produce alternately air-pressure and suction on the clothes during the operation of the pounder in washing said clothes;"

tudinal section of the same, and Fig.3 is aniuverted plan view.

The base or lower end of the pounder is of the form ofa horizontally-elongated pan'a, the top plate I) of which forms the bottom of an air-circulating compartment 0, disposed directly upon the inverted pan a and extending across the top thereof. 01 represents the main air-circulating tube, which extends vertically from the center of the plate I) through the top of the compartment 0 and is provided on its upper end with a removable cap 6, which is provided with a vent f. On the under side of the cap e is a valve g, which is caused to normally close the vent g by means of a spring h, attached at one end to the cap and at the opposite end to the valve. The lower end portion of the main tube d, which is inolosed in the compartment c, is provided in its sides with vents it, which communicate with the said compartment.

To the under side of the top plate b of the inverted pan is attached a plurality of depending'tubesjjj, the central tube of which is disposed directly under the lower end .of the main tube (1 and communicates with the said tube through a vent Z'in the plateb central of the depending tubej. The other depending tubesjj communicate with the air-' circulating compartmentcthrough vents'n n in the plate I). The said depending tubes are sustained in their relative positions by means of partitions 00, extending radially from the exteriors of said tubes to the inner sides of the pan (1.

To the main tube (1 are attached diverging braces 19 p, to the upper ends ofwhich is fast-ion of lifting the pounder a suction is produced therein which opens the valve g, and

thus admits air through the main tube d, from whence the air passes through the vents into the compartment 0 and central depending tubej and at the same time allows air to pass from the said compartment through the vents an to the s'ubjacent depending tubes jj. This influx of air releases the pounder from the clothes which may have been forced into the depending tubes and allows the pounder to be shifted to bear on another portionof the clothes. This alternate compression and suction of air in the pounder and the distribution of the circulating air through the compartment over the inverted pan and through the plurality of tubes in the inverted pan ct cause the clothes to be thoroughly washed across the entire face of the pounder without subjecting said clothes to liability of being torn or injured during theprocess. To cause a more thorough circulation of the air and water in the pan a during the operation of the pounder, we provide the sides of the depending tubes jjj with vents t, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

What we claim as our invention is- 1. The improved clothes-pounder consisting ment, and being provided with air-vents cornmunicating with said air-compartment, a cap applied to the top of said tube, a valve connected to said cap, a plurality of tubes depending from the top plate of the pan and provided With apertures in their sides, the top plate of the pan being provided with airvents and leading from the interiors of the depending tubes to the aforesaid air-compartment, and vertical partitions extending from the sides of the depending tubes to the sides of the pan.

2. Theimproved clothes-pounderconsisting of a horizontally-elongated inverted pan, a superposed air-circulating compartment having its bottom formed by the top plate of the pan, a main air-circulating tube extending vertically from the center of said top plate through the top of the aforesaid compartment and provided with vents in the sides of its lower portion communicating with the aforesaid compartment, a cap on the upper end of said main tube and provided with a 'vent, a valve connected to the under side of said cap and normally closing the vent, a plurality of tubes depending from the top plate of the pan and disposed in a row extending lengthwise of the pan and with the central tube directly under the aforesaid main tube, and provided with vents in their sides and with a vent in the top of the central depending tube communicating with the bottom of the main tube, and with vents in the tops of the remaining depending tubes communicating with the air-circulating compartment, partitions extending from the respective depending tubes to the sides of the inverted pan, braces extending from the main tube, and the handle attached to said braces.

LOIS S. ELLIOTT. EDWARD M. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. LAASS, SEBASTIAN BIEHREs. 

